Re: Feature request (?): Horizontal spacing

[Anthony W. Youngman]

In message 
<address@hidden>, David 
Rogers <address@hidden> writes
> Erik Sandberg wrote:
>
> > This is of course achievable by adding \breaks manually, but my
> > suggestion is to add a property for a threshold value that somehow
> > controls an upper bound of how tightly spaced a staff can be. This
> > could e.g. be the minimum horizontal distance between notes, but I
> > guess there could exist more logical variables as well.
> >
> > I can’t recall anyone saying anything about this feature, and I can’t
> > find it in the manual, so I suppose it doesn’t exist. If it does,
> > perhaps it should be mentioned in the docs, under global layout?
>
>
> I suppose a skilled human engraver would have a mental hierarchy of
> which parameters to change first (from among staff spacing, note
> spacing, staff sizes, etc), in order to "make it fit". The most lovely
> thing would be if Lilypond was able to mimic that way of thinking, (i.e.
> the first thought is "I want to make it fit on X pages", and everything
> follows from there), rather than trial and error by the user.
Another item in the mental hierarchy ... I don't think lily does this, 
but if someone does visit this and try to do it, then when you're 
printing a part you want to try and put a page break by a multi-rest 
bar. I've not actually met that many but it's really infuriating when 
you have say four bars rest, two bars to play and then a tricky page 
turn (or a turn, a couple of bars and a long rest).

Cheers,
Wol
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